Focus on entrepreneurship at European science forum in DublinIF YOU have an invention and want to sell it to the world make plans to attend the Euroscience Open Forum in Dublin this July.
How the homing instinct worksScientists are still trying to determine how birds, butterflies and bats migrate the planet on their annual long-haul flights, writes ANTHONY KING
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- The Next Frontier of Social NetworkingResearchers at the University of Bologna working on resource sharing in mobile environments
- Ancient Methods for Judging and Using Testimony Still Valuable TodayKING (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): In today’s electronic world of twitter and tweets, RSS feeds and the torrent of electronic information that flows through the Internet, how do we know which information to trust? A theory of argument by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle shows how we can evaluate the trustworthiness of information in the everyday business of reasoning and making decisions.
- Players, patriotism, and politics at the ancient Olympic GamesVALAVANIS (University of Athens): Patriotism has been long been a key factor in international sports—athletes aren’t just competing for their own satisfaction but for the glory of their country. And this uneasy relationship isn’t just a modern affair, politics has had a huge role in sports since the ancient Olympic Games.
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Far from the madding crowdAdvanced mathematical models are used to predict the behaviour of large gatherings of people, making crowd movements and group mentalities more predictable than you might think, writes JOHN HOLDEN
What makes the perfect Olympian?THIS SUMMER, top athletes from around the world will converge on London to try (among other things) to run, swim, cycle and walk faster than ever recorded. To jump longer and higher, to throw further and to lift heavier weights.
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- Research in a developing EU area
A good time to assess progress in the realisation of the ERA, writes CONOR O'CARROLL
Scenes from life on the Factory floorThree years ago, directors Kirsten Sheridan and John Carney decided to create a collective space for film-makers. Having found a building, and kicked out the wildlife, their plans keep growing
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- Seeing the light - without wires
SMALL PRINT: IT SOUNDS LIKE something out of science fiction, but researchers in the US have developed a “solar” implant for the eye. While there’s a way to go yet, the hope is that it might eventually help people with vision loss due to certain forms of degeneration of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
The mystery of the Antarctic octopusSMALL PRINT: WHAT’S in an octopus? Not just brains to burn, but also significant new clues that could justify concerns about climate change.
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